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Title: Harris Forrest Seidel
Dates: 1935
Collection Number: 2019-P-013
Quantity: 1 item
Abstract: Copy of photograph taken by Lillie Burgstahler Seidel of two story sod house near Chaseley (N.D.)
Provenance: The State Historical Society of North Dakota received this copy of a photograph from Harris Forrest Seidel in December 1995.
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Biographical Sketch: Harris Forrest Seidel
Harris Forrest Seidel was born on November 12, 1922 in Hamburg, Wells County, North Dakota to Harry Forrest (1892-1989) and Lily Eleanor Burgstahler Seidel (1895-1996). In 1942 he graduated from College of the Pacific in Stockton California. In 1944, he graduated from Iowa State College in Ames Iowa with a degree in Engineering. He married Kathryn Jane Bell on June 9, 1945 in Canton, Lincoln County, South Dakota. He took a job as an engineer with the city of Ames, Iowa moving up the ranks and in 1954 becoming Superintendent of the Water & Sewage Department and eventually the Director of Water and Pollution Control. He is retired and still living in Ames, Iowa with his wife Kathryn.
Lily “Lillie” Eleanor Burgstahler Seidel
Lily “Lillie “Eleanor Burgstahler was born on September 25, 1895 in Fessenden, Wells County North Dakota to Albert and Bertha Elizabeth Boese Burgstahler. They were Germans from Russia who had immigrated in 1881 and 1886. Albert became a naturalized citizen. They farmed their land in Germantown, Wells County, North Dakota where three of her siblings were born. The family moved to Elliott Township, San Joaquin County, California around 1910 where they farmed the land. On February 2, 1919 she married Harry Forrest Seidel and moved to Hamberg, Wells County, North Dakota. They farmed the land there and raised their son Harris. Eventually around 1947 they moved back to California where Harry died on March 20, 1989 and Lily died on February 7, 1996. They are buried in the Lodi Memorial Cemetery, in Lodi, California.
Sources:
Bismarck Tribune, Ancestry.com
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2019-P-013-00001 Two story sod house near Chaseley, Wells County (N.D.) 1935
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